Wed night TV

A few points about last night's adventures in TV Land:

"Lost" season finale

Overall - HOLY CRAP! What a mind-blowing 2 hours of edge-of-your-seat TV! As expected, we've got some answers and a whole bunch of new questions. Let's take a look at a few developments from a character perspective:

Sayid - As I hoped, Sayid had a big part in doings. That guy has a huge set of balls - his recce of The Others' seaside village had me riveted. No surprise - the "village" was nothing but a ruse. Still, to just yank open the doors of the fake "hatch" would take some guts. What to make of the giant, four-toed statue base and the smoke signal coming from the wrong (or was it the right?) place? I have NO idea.

Michael and Walt - It CAN'T be so easy for them. Just follow a compass heading and everything will be fine? No way! I expected the boat to go boom at any second. Or will Michael find his decency and return to the island to right his many, most serious, wrongs? Perhaps he'll hook up with Sayid, Jin, and Sun on their sailboat?

Locke and Eko - Dead? Trapped in the wreckage of the hatch? Is there wreckage of the hatch? There was no explosion, at least not that we saw, when Desmond turned the key.

Desmond - Also as I hoped, we got a LOT more on my favorite Brit ex-soldier. Where does xgf Penelope fit into this? And his encounter with (and generous gift from) Libby also sets off a bunch of questions. If the crash of Oceanic 815 was as simple as and electromagnetic "system failure", how do all of the interactions between the Losties prior to the crash figure in? Again, it's not that easy.

Jack, Kate, and Sawyer - The biggest of many big cliffhangers. What happens to them now that they're in the friendly embrace of The Others?

The Others - Sure, we've got faces and some names, but they are more mysterious than they were when all we saw were legs and a bound teddy-bear.

It's going to be a LONG summer.

Mavs-Suns Game 1

I managed to switch over to TNT-HD in time for the last half of the 4th quarter. Everything I said yesterday seemed to come into play. The Suns EXPLODED for 16 in the final minutes, and Boris Diaw's great move on Stackhouse to win the game completely drained my life-force.

There's no reason to panic, yet. The Mavs did not play their best game, and, as the great David Moore said in this morning's DMN, an emotional letdown after Game 7 with the Spurs was to be expected. I'm still optimistic, but this is not going to be the cakewalk some in town seemed to expect.